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Road Music – Disc#1 Behind the Music by The Soundtrack Of Our Lives As we rumbled, jarred and sometimes hissed our way through the interior of Uruguay on buses resembling the one from ‘Only Fools and Horses’ that Del and Rodney had a Jolly boys outing on – I decided it was time for some music. With gauchos (most with fantastic beret’s and long moustaches) herding cattle in the road verges and waving with interest at the lightly occupied bus […]

I know this statement rolls of the tongue too readily sometimes but I genuinely had one of the best times ever when we stayed at an estancia called Panagea close to the town of Tacuarembo in northern Uruguay. Getting the chance to help on a working estancia and experience gaucho life was one of things I most wanted to do when we decided to travel South America and our time at Panagea delivered in bucket loads. Before we left the […]

We’re sat in a small waiting room on a side street of Chuy waiting for our 8:40am bus to Trenta y Tres. It’s basic, there’s a couple of hand painted pictures on the wall facing me of old buses run by the firm and a newspaper article probably 50 years old entitled “El Omnibus de la Playa”. We are joined by four elderly locals, each with small travel bags and choosing promptly to sit on the basic bench seats that […]

Sometimes a person wanders by you and stops to make your life a better place. Meeting Ricardo Ibáñez was one of moments. Being stuck in a the northern Uruguayan town of Melo without a bus out until the following day and a fruitless hunt for a room for less than 40 dollars a night (over twice our budget), things were looking iffy – spend loads of dosh or a night on the street. Enter Ricardo. He must have seen us […]

My morning runs in Valizas on the Uruguayan Coast have been a real treat. On the bus ride in, i noticed the road into the village was probably 3 miles long and a steady weaving gradient to the main road so I thought that would make good running up and back the following morning. We had arrived just before the start of a tremendous thunder storm which cracked and ignited the rest of the day and swamped poor Valizas in […]

Adding the miles in Punta Del Diablo has been more of an assault course than road running. Particularly when you find that the stray pup ‘rocky’ taken in by the French owners of our cabana decided to leave a little bit of “Rocky Road” in my nikes before my run one morning, little Sod! I’ve been doing a circuit of the town, probably about 3.5 miles – twice around on the more adventurous and cooler mornings. The roads are dirt […]